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"This is an event that is going to have public health consequences. So I do think this is an event that will probably lead to a significant spreading event," Redfield added.

"Then these individuals all are going in cars and trains and planes going home all across the country right now. You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol," Redfield said. "I do think you have to anticipate that this is another surge event. CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with McClatchy newspapers that it was likely a "surge event" in the coronavirus pandemic that would have public health consequences nationwide. Public health officials also feared Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol would only worsen the crisis. 11 and discussed his priorities upon entering office, Inauguration Day security and looming impeachment of President Trump following the deadly Capitol siege. President-elect Joe Biden received the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Jan.

The number of COVID-19 cases was expected to soar this month after end-of-year holiday gatherings and a growing number of people contracting a new, more contagious variant.īiden receives 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine More 22.4 million infections have been confirmed nationwide. has climbed to nearly 375,000 people, data from Johns Hopkins University shows. Some lawmakers and staff were furious after video showed a group of some Republican lawmakers in the lockdown room in close conversation while refusing to accept masks offered to them.

Some members of Congress huddled for hours in the large room, while others were there for a shorter period. Brian Moynihan said that members who were in protective isolation last Wednesday "may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection."ĭozens of lawmakers were whisked to the secure location after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the Capitol that day, breaking through barricades to roam the halls and offices and ransacking the building. While it's not certain where and when lawmakers caught the illness, the Capitol’s attending physician notified all lawmakers Sunday of virus exposure and urged them to be tested. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What started as a congressional and democratic exercise in the peaceful transfer of power, devolved into death, destruction and chaos.īoth Schneider and Watson Coleman echoed concerns about potentially having contracted COVID-19 during the lockdown due to many members of Congress not wearing a mask, despite recommendations from the U.S. Don Beyer, the last time Congressional staff had received a lockdown alert from Capitol Police was on January 6 during the Capitol riot. While Pepfar can continue operating without congressional reauthorization, advocates say a failure to do so would signal diminishing US support for HIV/Aids prevention.Timeline of the riot at the US Capitol on Jan. According to Aaron Fristchner, a staffer for Virginia Rep. Smith was a co-sponsor of the 2018 bill extending Pepfar for five years but is now seeking to block its renewal after Biden in 2021 lifted Trump-era restrictions that barred Pepfar and other global programs receiving US funding from performing or promoting abortions. The program was first established in 2003 by President George W Bush to prevent and treat HIV/Aids in developing countries worldwide, and it is overseen by the US Department of State.Ībout 20 million people depend on the program globally, according to a White House statement in January. “Any multi-year PEPFAR reauthorizing legislation must ensure that Biden’s hijacking of PEPFAR to promote abortion be halted,” wrote New Jersey Republican Representative Chris Smith, who chairs the House foreign affairs subcommittee, in a letter to colleagues in June.Īt McCarthy’s Washington DC office, Capitol police handcuffed six activists and escorted them away, according to Politico reporter Alice Ollstein, who shared videos from the scene at the Rayburn House office building, which is connected to the US Capitol.ĭemonstrators were seen sitting and chanting in McCarthy’s office, demanding the Republican leader reauthorize key provisions of Pepfar, which are set to expire at the end of the month unless an agreement is reached. Some Republicans are opposing Pepfar’s reauthorization, arguing that current restrictions do not sufficiently prevent the funds from being used to support abortions, according to an August report by the Federation of American Scientists. But the program’s latest extension has been caught up in a partisan fight over abortion and is under threat amid Congress’s negotiations over a government shutdown.